Forecasting regional to global plant migration in response to climate change

BioScience

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 749-759

  Neilson, Ronald P ^a   Pitelka, Louis F ^b   Solomon, Allen M ^c   Nathan, Ran ^d   Midgley, Guy F ^e   Fragoso, Jóse M V ^f   Lischke, Heike ^g   Thompson, Ken ^h  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dispersal; Dynamic global vegetation models; Long distance dispersal; Migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144474663     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0749:FRTGPM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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